Chapter 21 - snowflake

Standing in the ruins that have just been looted by the earthquake, as long as you take a deep breath, your mouth and nose will be filled with a mixed smell of damp and mud. It seemed like it could rain anytime.

After observing for a while, he found that there seemed to be no major problems outside, and he should be able to walk back to the place where he settled down safely. Then Wei Xuan put away the binoculars and turned to look at Du Hang beside him: “Let’s go back and check the situation. Gather a few things and it will probably rain for at least two days afterward…we’ll have to find you enough food before it rains. Otherwise we’ll have to wait at least another week or so for the ground to dry out further below the surface dig it out…”

As he said, Wei Xuan turned his head and looked at a place beside the rockery that should have been flat ground, but now… there has been a long and tragic ground crack in that place, under the rugged and staggered ground, the upturned In the depths of the soil, you can vaguely see the reflection of the sun, like the reflections of fine glass, and they seem to be fine mineral debris—that’s what Wei Xuan occasionally dug pits to look for. snowflake”.

Zombies will eat “snowflakes”, but it is different from chasing human breath and wanting to eat human flesh. They will only take the initiative to pick up and eat those snowflakes when they are close to a certain distance from them.

So even if these things obviously appear in a park full of zombies, only the zombies that accidentally fall into the cracks will grab a handful of dirt and eat the things inside when they are close enough, other zombies will not take the initiative to go over of.

What’s more, this kind of snowflake, like the crystal nucleus, has an upper limit for each person’s “digestion” every day, so no matter how many zombies fall into it, they cannot eat them all.

Wei Xuan, who had been prepared for a long time, observed the surrounding situation and confirmed that there would be no accidents for the time being. Then he took Du Hang out of the pavilion together, bypassing the one who was wandering around in the pavilion with a body tied to him. The young zombie came to the very conspicuous big crack.

After the earthquake, there were quite a few such cracks in T City. But unfortunately, although these snowflake-like things floated out after the ground cracked, once it rained, these things seemed to be melted by the rain and merged into the soil again, until someone deliberately dug deep to find their origin again. trace.

If Wei Xuan remembers correctly, it will rain for two days on the second night after the earthquake, so he is short on time and heavy on tasks, and must get enough snowflakes as a reserve as soon as possible before then.

Taking off the small shovel and flower pick from his waist, and putting on a pair of white gloves for work by the way, Wei Xuan squatted by the crack to dig out those crystal clear snowflakes.

This kind of work can’t be handed over to Du Hang, because now he can only do some crude work. Although his strength is not small, if he doesn’t control it well, things will happen, and he can’t do some meticulous work that requires manual work. Fine work of skill.

However, Wei Xuan can handle this kind of thing. The width of the crack is very large, and the “snowflakes” here are scattered on the surface like precipitated salt grains. You can find more from inside.

In just one morning, Wei Xuan finished a few bags of “snowflakes”, which were enough for him and Du Hang to consume for several months, at least in a short period of time, there was no need to worry about not having enough of these things.

After a few months, when all these snowflakes are used up, even if all the zombies in the city go to dig this thing together during this period, they will not be able to eat all of these things—just because the strange snow will still be there after a period of time after the end of the world. It will continue to play, and it will be quite regular.

At that time, you only need to wait for the snow to melt and settle before digging, and you can find new ones.

Back at the tent, Wei Xuan simply packed his things. He wasn’t planning to take everything back because he wasn’t sure if the house he lived in was safe yet. After packing up the things and hiding them in the corner of the park, he dragged Du Hang back to the pavilion again.

This time, he simply scanned his surroundings, and then turned his head to look at the two zombies in the gazebo.

The younger of the two zombies stopped wandering around at this time, and sat back next to the older zombie. The two zombies stood side by side, like friends or lovers watching the scenery together.

Wei Xuan walked a few steps towards them, took a small bag containing snowflakes from the arm of Du Hang who had been helping him to carry the bag, and handed it to the elder one.

Because the distance was close enough, the older one could already feel the energy condensed in the snowflakes. So it raised its stiff hand and stretched out towards the bag in Wei Xuan’s hand.

Wei Xuan put the bag containing about half a bag of snowflakes into its hand, silently watching its movements. The zombie withdrew its hand first, then lowered its head to “look” at the bag, as if smelling it. Then it stretched out its other hand, grabbed it with some effort, and there were about six or seven pieces in its hand.

Just when Wei Xuan thought it would eat those snowflakes like Du Hang, he suddenly saw that the older zombie had already put his hand in front of the younger one.

Because of the distance, the young zombies did not feel the energy contained in these snowflakes. But at this time, it suddenly found that kind of energy, just like Du Hang in normal times, stretched out its head to get close to the hand of the elderly zombie, then opened its mouth, and directly ate about three pieces of it into its mouth.

The older one just sat there blankly, as if forgetting that he was still holding snowflakes in his hand, until the younger one ate the four pieces in his hand and stopped eating, then bowed his head and ate the leftovers. After that, I grabbed another handful from the bag until I couldn’t eat any more.

“… Each zombie eats a different amount of this food?” Wei Xuan first felt that the scene in front of him made him feel a little inexplicably moved, then he pulled Du Hang around, and thought of something else to make him forget what he just watched. scene. Regardless of the relationship between the two zombies before the end of the world, is there any relationship between his YY lovers? The current picture made him feel a little sad.

However, it was precisely because of the appearance of these two zombies that he indirectly made up his mind to let go of his previous worries about “whether being too close to Du Hang might turn him into a zombie”—the rope tied around his waist and Du Hang’s now is Learned from both of them.

That’s why he gave them a small bag of snowflakes before leaving.

Seeing their movements when they ate snowflakes just now made Wei Xuan realize that the “eating capacity” of zombies seems to be different. Some eat more, some eat less?

Just like that young zombie, it seems to be “full” after eating four slices. But the older one, like Du Hang, needs to eat five slices.

Think about yourself again, because your abilities can work automatically without using them at all, and just absorbing one tablet a day is enough… But Du Hang obviously didn’t do anything? Although sometimes I will use his strange power to make him do some work, but even if he is idle for a whole day, his “eat appetite” has never changed.

But I need to eat, but Du Hang doesn’t need it at all, so in fact, zombies eat snowflakes just like eating themselves, and they need to replenish a sufficient amount of energy every day?

As for how much other supernatural beings can absorb if they insist on absorbing this thing every day? Lan Ze really didn’t know. After all, what circulated in the base in the previous life has always been just zombie crystal nuclei, not these inconspicuous little crystals. Even if someone finds it by chance, the thing will shatter if you squeeze it with a little force, and most people just regard them as the crystallization of something unknown-such as salt-and completely ignore it.

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The quake caused a huge crack in the park and the collapse of some weak walls. The tragedy on the streets outside is not comparable to that when the end of the world first arrived. Those cars parked on the road in a mess at this time lost their original appearance because of the cracks in the ground and the sundries that fell from the nearby tall buildings. The streets are twisted and crooked.

This time, not to mention that highly skilled drivers cannot get in and out with high-powered vehicles, even tanks need to spend a lot of time clearing the road.

Wei Xuan carefully led Du Hang to go around many obstacles and avoid all suspicious objects that might cause danger. That’s right, there’s nothing wrong with that, ever since he and Du Hang were tied together with a rope, every time Wei Xuan took action, he was “leading” Du Hang in a real sense!

The loud noise caused by the earthquake, the sound of houses breaking and collapsing, and the sound of walls collapsing are not so attractive to zombies. It seems that although they are very interested in things that can make sounds, it’s like gossip lovers will run to search for relevant information and get together to gossip once they hear something. And the zombies seem to be born able to distinguish the difference between the movement caused by the laws of nature and the movement caused by humans.

Wei Xuan, who was walking cautiously, was even more surprised by the current situation on the street—except for some zombies who could not escape from the house when the earthquake happened, the number of zombies on the road at this time was actually more than before. many! These zombies seem to have all escaped from their original neighborhoods and houses!

Maybe even if they are no longer human, maybe even if they have forgotten all the memories of being human, but the instincts of the body still remain. For this sudden danger of natural disasters, the number of them at this time has proved that they How fast your reaction speed is and how powerful your ability to avoid danger is.